One of the victims of the stabbing waits for treatment at the Muhimbili
National Hospital in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO| CORRESPONDENT
Dar es Salaam. Five people are admitted to
Muhimbili National Hospital with serious knife wounds after an
unidentified man stabbed them inside a minibus (daladala) at Magomeni in
Kinondoni District.
The attacker soon overpowered,
disarmed and beaten to death by other passengers. The incident occurred
on Wednesday at around 7pm in the evening, as the daladala was being
driven from the the city centre to Mawasiliano bus terminal at Ubungo.
The
Kinondoni regional police commander, Mr Camillius Wambura, confirmed
the incident but decried mob justice, saying that it was a crime for
people to take the law into their own hands.
He told
The Citizen that police would investigate the whole incident as reports
of the attack continued to spread on social media platforms until
yesterday.
“We are trying to investigate the whole scenario and we will give a full report,” said Mr Wambura.
Narrating
the ordeal, an eyewitness told reporters that the attacker entered the
daladala just like any other passenger and took the backseat. No one
knew that there was an impending problem.
Pandemonium
started after the man started exchanging words with one of the
passengers. The passenger was stabbed on his stomach as he traded words
with the attacker.
The driver quickly stopped the bus
as other passengers tried to intervene and others escaping from the
minibus. However, it was too late as the knife-wielding man had already
stabbed about four other passengers in the same bus.
The
witness said that one woman reportedly took courage and held the
attacker’s knife as an angry mob descended on the man like bees, beating
him to death. His identity remains unknown as was his motive.
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